{"id":31280,"key":"Green_Building/Water_Efficient_Buildings_and_Retrofits","title":"Green Building/Water Efficient Buildings and Retrofits","latest":{"id":1261626,"timestamp":"2026-08-18T15:01:10Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Green Building navigation}}\n\n== Objectives ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand:\n\n# Where our water come from\n# Where our water goes after we have used it\n# The sustainable paradigms and technologies we can employ while the water cycle is in our hands\n# The careers involved in water management and sustainable use\n\n== Goals ==\n\n[[File:ArcatamarshCreativeCommons.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of the [[Arcata Marsh]].]]\n\nThe following are some of the main goals for the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module.\n\n=== Concepts ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand the following concepts (among others):\n\n* Global Water Cycle\n* Personal and global human use\n* Watershed Management\n* Water Treatment (municipal and home)\n* Waste Water Treatment (municipal and home): Conventional, Marsh, Digesters, Solids Management\n* Storm Water Management Systems and Design\n* Sustainable Use Technologies: Greywater Systems, Rainwater Catchment, Municipal Water Reuse, Residential Technologies\n\n=== Vocabulary and units ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to confidently use the following vocabulary and/or units (among others):\n\n* liters, gallons, GPM, CFS, mg/l, acre-foot, liters/flush\n* hydrograph, watershed, flocculation, hyporheic zone, interception, through-fall, flow, pressure, friction, BOD, Stormwater, TSS, fecal coliform, low flush, aerator\n\n=== Calculations ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to do the following calculations (among others):\n\n* Flow\n* Water Cycle, Respiration and Photosynthesis\n* N Scale\n* C Scale\n* Hydrostatic Pressure\n* Rainwater Catchment Calculations\n\n=== How to ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be comfortable doing the following (among others):\n\n* Read a hydrograph\n* Measure flowrate\n* Design a simple Rainwater Catchment system\n* Design a simple Greywater system\n* Determine hydrostatic pressure\n* Convert between flow (cfs-gpm)\n* Asses a region for most appropriate: Wastewater treatment systems, Stormwater management, Water storage\n\n== Field trips ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be have gone on the following field trips (possibly among others):\n\n* Pump station (e.g. West End Road)\n* [[Arcata marsh]]\n* Stormwater (e.g. Janes Creek Meadows)\n* Residential greywater installation (e.g. [[AEF greywater]])\n* Residential rainwater catchment system (e.g. [[M Street Eureka rainwater catchment]])\n\n{{Page data}}\n\n[[Category:Water]]"}